New York A 6647: Relates to lifetime fishing licenses and certain license exemptions for United States veterans

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A06647 Summary:

BILL NOA06647 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06376, SAME AS A08482

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SPONSORBronson

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §15, Work Comp L

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Prohibits insurance carriers and employers from withholding certain benefits from injured workers based on a claim that such workers have voluntarily withdrawn from the labor market by not seeking alternate employment that their injury or illness does not preclude them from performing.

Go to top A06647 Actions:

BILL NOA06647 

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03/06/2025referred to labor

05/16/2025enacting clause stricken

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Go to topA06647 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6647

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 6, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to prohibit-
 ing insurance carriers and employers from withholding certain benefits
 from injured workers based on attachment to the labor market

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph w of subdivision 3 of section 15 of the workers'
 2 compensation law, as amended by section 1 of subpart A of part NNN of
 3 chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended and a new paragraph y is
 4 added to read as follows:
 5 w. Other cases. In all other cases of permanent partial disability,
 6 the compensation shall be sixty-six and two-thirds percent of the
 7 difference between the injured employee's average weekly wages and [his
 8 or her] such injured employee's wage-earning capacity thereafter in the
 9 same employment or otherwise. Compensation under this paragraph shall
 10 be payable during the continuance of such permanent partial disability,
 11 [without the necessity for the claimant who is entitled to benefits at
 12 the time of classification to demonstrate ongoing attachment to the
 13 labor market, but] subject to reconsideration of the degree of such
 14 impairment by the board on its own motion or upon application of any
 15 party in interest however, all compensation payable under this paragraph
 16 shall not exceed (i) five hundred twenty-five weeks in cases in which
 17 the loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than ninety-five percent;
 18 (ii) five hundred weeks in cases in which the loss of wage-earning
 19 capacity is greater than ninety percent but not more than ninety-five
 20 percent; (iii) four hundred seventy-five weeks in cases in which the
 21 loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than eighty-five percent but
 22 not more than ninety percent; (iv) four hundred fifty weeks in cases in
 23 which the loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than eighty percent
 24 but not more than eighty-five percent; (v) four hundred twenty-five

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10555-01-5

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 1 weeks in cases in which the loss of wage-earning capacity is greater
 2 than seventy-five percent but not more than eighty percent; (vi) four
 3 hundred weeks in cases in which the loss of wage-earning capacity is
 4 greater than seventy percent but not more than seventy-five percent;
 5 (vii) three hundred seventy-five weeks in cases in which the loss of
 6 wage-earning capacity is greater than sixty percent but not more than
 7 seventy percent; (viii) three hundred fifty weeks in cases in which the
 8 loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than fifty percent but not more
 9 than sixty percent; (ix) three hundred weeks in cases in which the loss
 10 of wage-earning capacity is greater than forty percent but not more than
 11 fifty percent; (x) two hundred seventy-five weeks in cases in which the
 12 loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than thirty percent but not
 13 more than forty percent; (xi) two hundred fifty weeks in cases in which
 14 the loss of wage-earning capacity is greater than fifteen percent but
 15 not more than thirty percent; and (xii) two hundred twenty-five weeks in
 16 cases in which the loss